Maria Walter Nielsen: PLURI
It pops under your fingers, producing a subtle sensation of satisfaction. As it pops it emits strange sounds. Its cells are transparent and filled with air. Bubblewrap is a simple material, generally utilized to...
The design subversive
On 7 November, Italian auction house Cambi Casa d’Aste is holding a sale dedicated to Dino Gavina (1922-2007), a central figure in the history of post-war design, a courageous, visionary and enlightened entrepreneur.
Gavina was...
The imaginative space of Marco Lavit
At first glance, the weaves create rigorous, linear, hypnotic compositions. But going beyond formal expression, the rugs reach a deeper, more imaginative dimension, full of mythological and geographical references that the designer draws inspiration...
Tribute to Gabriella Crespi
There are the Fungo, Obelisco, Caleidoscopio and Scudo lamps, with their ethereal glow. There’s the intricate Plurimi collection, with its modular, transformative furnishings. As well as the Lotus Leaves table and the iconic Reclining Armchair....
Architecture and thought
Richard Rogers (1933-1921) was one of the great pioneers of 20th-century architecture, and of the architecture of the next century as well. Centre Pompidou in Paris, designed in tandem with Renzo Piano, is the...
Young talent on display
A full-fledged debut in the corporate and, more generally, consumer world. For ten design studios, the chance to exhibit in the prestigious Design Supermarket at La Rinascente, Milan, represents all this. An effective springboard,...
Human scale
What could be further apart than a contemporary artist born in 1978 and one of the most revolutionary architects who emerged in the early 20th century? A connection exists. It is explained in Genius...
Family stories
There are four people behind the rather mysterious title (ZaLiZaZa - family inventory) of the exhibition organized by Galleria Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea in Milan, on view until 19 November: the photographer Miro Zagnoli...
Wes Anderson in Milan
To commemorate Wes Anderson’s eleventh film, Asteroid City, to be released in Italian cinemas at the end of the month, an exhibition has opened in Milan, in the spaces of the Fondazione Prada, in...
Good design, on stage
Bruno Munari said that “when everything is art, nothing is Art.” This is the situation that is arising today in the world of design, where if we put the words “design products” into a...
